eBay Rides the Crest of the Wave
	eBay's year-over-year report shows that the company is becoming more and more prosperous. The total revenues for the second semester of 2008 surpassed the ones from 2007 by $361 million, reaching $2.2 billion. The e-commerce activities still account for most of the business share, but some domains that could still be considered of niche, such as PayPal, global classifieds, advertising and Skype, have helped the company become stronger ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 08:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

PayPal to Be Closed for One Hour
	PayPal, one of the most popular websites on the Internet and surely the most used service for online payments and money transfers, has announced that the service would be unavailable on May 29 for approximately one hour due to scheduled maintenance. Jim McGuire, vice president of network operations at PayPal, said the website would become inaccessible on Thursday, May 29, at 11pm PDT (Friday, May 30, at 6:00 am GMT) for one hour ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 16:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

PayPal Phishing Scam Explained by Yahoo
	Phishing scams occur every once in a while and users have started to get used to them; nevertheless, there are some cases when such an attack may prove to be pretty dangerous. The most recently reported PayPal phishing scam attempts to steal PayPal credentials by using the same traditional method: an email message that informs users that their account information must be updated, the provided link redirecting them to a fake websi ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 05:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

PayPal has a New “Green” Building
	Some of the employees at one of the largest online transactions companies will work in a new and improved building. According to the PayPal Blog, Scott Thompson, the PayPal president, along with with John Donahoe, eBay CEO and Chuck Reed, Mayor of San Jose, have inaugurated the new PayPal building, last week on 8th of May. The inauguration ceremony is said to have marked an important environmental milestone for both PayPal and ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Apple's Safari Not a PayPal Banned Browser
	Following recent reports, PayPal plans to ban unsafe browsers, especially the ones that provide weak security features. Among these tools, Apple's Safari is one of the most important applications and, even if it's currently being accessed by millions of users, it doesn't actually provide too powerful security filters. Because of that, users thought that Safari was going to be one of the PayPal banned browsers but, ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 05:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Unsafe Browsers to Be Banned By PayPal, Safari Among the Favorites
	Browser vulnerabilities are among the main causes of web attacks because they allow hackers and malicious people to take over the control over a certain computer or just insert a dangerous code to harm the data stored on the system. Because of that, the PayPal may take the decision to ban browsers dubbed as unsafe and restrict their access on the website. Honestly, this would be a great security measure because consumers using ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2008, 06:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

PayPal Not As Secure As You Had Expected?
	PayPal's Security Key was regarded as an extremely efficient solution to stop potential phishing or other web attacks over the PayPal members, as it generates a six-character code to be entered for authentification. Along with a username, a password and an answer to a secret question, it's probably impossible to break and get access to the account. At least this is what we know. But here's Chris Romero, an IT admin ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo!, eBay, PayPal Rally Against E-mail Fraud and Phishing
	This is something great – these giants have joined forces to put an end to e-mail frauds and phishing scams. It’s bound to have great results – Yahoo! Mail is going to protect consumers by blocking fraudulent eBay and PayPal e-mail and with their e-mail client being the most popular ever, this is going to thwart cyber-crime! Yahoo! Mail is the first web mail service to block these types of malicious messages for eBay and PayPal through ... [read more >>]
	09 October 2007, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Paypal Users Will Soon Be More Secure
	People are victims of Internet based fraud daily and this is due to various reasons. But one problem is authentication – when this process is not good enough, accounts will get hacked and people will lose money. You’ve seen Paypal in the title and you’re probably now thinking that they’re the only ones with such problems, but you’d be wrong. Better authentication process is something that any web-based firm wants. In any case, Pa ... [read more >>]
	19 September 2007, 10:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Takes On eBay for Online Money
	Google and eBay are now two of the most important rivals competing for the leader position of a certain domain of the market. Both companies are trying to obtain the first place in the online payments area as their solutions grew up a lot in the recent period. Google Checkout was in a continuously increase since its launch date while eBay consolidated its image with several major improvements that were usually very attractive for ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2007, 04:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

eBay Starts The War Against Google
	The Internet giant eBay has stopped buying text adverts provided by the Mountain View company Google after the search giant started a powerful campaign against the auction website. Google recently announced a party for the merchants and the sellers registered with the company, in the detriment of the live event prepared by eBay in Boston. Obviously, eBay was somehow forced to respond to the challenge and decided to stop purchasin ... [read more >>]
	14 June 2007, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's Malefic Plan: Forever Free!
	It's well known the fact that Google is offering only free solutions, most of them being accessible from a web-based interface with a freeware Google account. I know, there are a few exceptions like Google Mini and the premium versions of Google Apps, but the Mountain View firm is a free company. And it will remain the same because this attracts people. I'm not saying it, but Patrick Chanezon, a Google API team member, ... [read more >>]
	07 June 2007, 04:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

I Want to Shop Online. Google or Yahoo?
	In the recent period, the online shopping became an important activity on the Internet, more and more users being lured to buy stuff straight from the websites. The online shopping is quite easy and tends to become more secure because the companies are trying to implement security systems able to protect the customers' data. Now, the two Internet giants, Google and Yahoo, are struggling to improve their solutions and take th ... [read more >>]
	19 April 2007, 11:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google vs. Yahoo – Part 1
	The battle for the most popular online shopping service on the Internet started a few days ago when the giant portal Yahoo announced a partnership with PayPal, a deal meant to improve the Yahoo search engine. Using the agreement, the company updated the search technology with a new feature, allowing the users to buy products straight from the SERP. As you know, Google owns Checkout, a product that was regarded as a PayPal rival ... [read more >>]
	19 April 2007, 02:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo + PayPal = Search Engine Shopping
	Yahoo recently signed a deal with PayPal to build an extremely useful function for the online shopper, allowing them to buy their stuff straight from the SERP. Yahoo managed to integrated PayPal's features into the search engine and, once a user will search the Internet after a certain product, the technology will return online merchants along with a shopping cart. The sign allows users to buy the product via PayPal without ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2007, 05:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

PayPal Attacked By Phishers!
	PayPal, the Internet company that allows users to conduct online financial payments, is now the target of numerous phishers that are looking to obtain financial information and earn money illegally. F-Secure security company reported that PayPal was recently attacked by a group of phishers that designed a similar page and tried to lure the clients into providing their account details. “Spotted yet another PayPal phishing site thi ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2007, 05:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia